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Alan Moore, co-founder of 3rd Ward Tours, uses microphone and speaker to lead the bicycle tour Sunday, June 18, 2017, in Houston. The tour has many stops to tell histories in the Third Ward community.

In the blocks surrounding the pomp of the grand opening for Third Ward’s sweeping new Emancipation Park this past weekend, residents may have noticed something else new and unusual: A fleet of shiny orange bikes, led by a man with long dreadlocks and a boxy speaker on his front rack, playing dancy music and chatting with wide-eyed passersby.

“You do this every Sunday?” yelled a lady from her car. For Alan Moore, the answer is not yet – but hopefully soon.

Moore is the founder of Let’s Do This Houston, an events company that puts on group bike rides, often coupled with food. In the past, he’s teamed up with Tour de Hood, a Third Ward-based non-profit that leads neighborhood bike tours on donated bikes that they’ve fixed up at the adjoining bike shop.

Now, with the donation of 30 Dutch cruisers from CYCLE Houston – complete with bells and lights – the two groups are accelerating their plans to introduce people to the Third Ward’s cultural history and present. The new bikes live in a big yellow shipping container across from Emancipation Park on well-trafficked Elgin Street, which was still having “3rd Ward Bike Tours” painted on it in big block letters.

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